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As a part of the initiative, the automaker may also provide 2,000 models of high-pressure backpack sprayers to varied authorities businesses.
- PTI New Delhi
- Last Updated: April 1, 2020, 2:29 PM IST
Honda India Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Honda group firms in India, on Wednesday pledged Rs 11 crore help in direction of COVID-19 aid and prevention measures.
As a part of the initiative, Honda will instantly provide 2,000 models of high-pressure backpack sprayers to varied authorities businesses.
These lightweight highly effective sprayers shall be used for disinfectant fumigation at hospitals, public transport, railway stations, public canteens and different widespread areas, the Japanese agency mentioned in a press release.
Besides, Honda will help native administration efforts in any respect its manufacturing areas, it added.
The Honda group will make obtainable its ambulances stationed in any respect its vegetation for medical emergencies and help with meals packets to maintain the poor and underprivileged in these tough instances, it mentioned.
The Honda India Foundation may also contribute monetary help to central and state governments’ aid funds in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Rajasthan the place manufacturing vegetation of Honda group firms are positioned.
Furthermore, associates throughout all 5 Honda group firms in India have voluntarily pledged to donate sooner or later’s wage in direction of the whole aid help, it mentioned.
“We stand one with the Indian government in its spirited battle against the COVID-19 outbreak,” Honda India Foundation Chairman Minoru Kato mentioned.
This post was last modified on April 2, 2020 8:04 am